Build your own Wikipedia reader

One part inexpensive uC, one part touch-screen, one part Internet knowledge-base all come together to make up this Wikipedia reader. It functions in a very similar way to commercial versions by parsing XML dumps from the popular website to an SD card for use on the device. This is not limited to Wikipedia, but could just as easily be an e-reader. [Rossum] developed the package using an NXP ARM Cortex M0 model LCP1114 microcontroller. They cost just a couple of bucks but pack a 50 MHz punch with 32 KB of program memory and 8 KB of SRAM. If the nanotouch and the AVR iPhone concept didn’t convince you that [Rossum] knows what he’s doing, the video after the break of this newest creation will seal the deal.

I believe it says you can do that somewhere. Besides wikipedia, I would like a few other sites myself.

I would add at least the English texts from Project Guttenburg, Snopes, Urban Dictionary, and The Jargon File. Guttenburg for any time I just need something to read, and the others for understanding the ReaL WorlD.

It’d be interesting to try to find as good of a deal on a bit bigger of a screen (no offense, but 2.2″ diagonal seems somewhat small, though I suppose it’s plenty if you’re just quick-checking a Wikipedia article).

Another useful (possibly already implemented) feature would be to be able to download websites ahead of time for your perusal later. Or, since this is all hypothetical, might as well add a hypothetical Ethernet port and obtain the pages that way.